FIRMS can discover how to protect bright ideas when a roadshow comes to East Lancashire. Organised by the Patent Office, it will explain how firms can register and profit from them. The two-day event, at the Dunkenhalgh Hotel on April 16th and 17th, is
KIDS my age - in the 13-17 group - have nowhere to go at night. My local community centre doesn't provide much and they will not let in teenagers in the evenings because we are classed as trouble-makers, which isn't true. And its very similar in other
A NEW course aimed at helping older people find work is being staged later this month. It will be held at the University of Central Lancashire as part of the European Year of Life Long Learning. "Mature people looking for work find the experience increasingly
GREAT Harwood Town chairman Bill Holden is an optimist, which many people might think is just as well. When your club is bottom of the league, without a manager and the fee for your star striker goes to help pay for refurbishing the floodlights, life's
FABULOUS Chris Farlowe will be starting off the Easter feast of music at the Eighth National Burnley Blues Festival tonight. The sixties chart hero has never stopped working since he founded the Thunderbirds with Albert Lee and recently made an appearance
A FIRM struggling to sell the mill site it is quitting near Accrington town centre will have to wait for a crucial planning ruling. Office furniture manufacturers Lupton Bros Ltd was granted planning permission in December for the demolition of its huge
KEEN young footballers have netted the chance of a lifetime with six weeks of professional training at Blackburn Rovers. The unemployed young men from Blackburn Roman Road estate impressed the Safer Cities project, which is funding the team for its first
WORRIED residents packed into a public meeting to voice their fears over plans to build a new St Wilfrid's secondary school on Feniscliffe playing fields. Objectors say there will be nowhere for children to play, and a new school would lead to traffic
A YOUNG Rovers fan from London will be able to see his heroes play Newcastle after all, thanks to kind-hearted Lancashire Evening Telegraph readers. Christian Rodwell, 16, had given up hope of getting a couple of tickets for himself and his mum for the
TOP rider Joanna Jackson and her horse Mester Mouse hit the Atlanta trail today. The Chatburn dressage expert has already made the Olympic Games long-list. And, after winning the first two of four trials, she is in pole position to be selected for the
THE severe winter just experienced has extremely serious consequences for many people's pet tortoises. A great many have died, and thousands more are at risk when they awake. It is vitally important that owners check their animals immediately. The most
NEW sea belt regulations for school minibuses do not go far enough, says Pendle MP Gordon Prentice The new regulations agreed this week mean school vehicles carrying three or more children must fit safety belts on forward-facing seats. The Labour backbencher
COCKROACHES are just occasional visitors to the kitchens at Blackburn hospitals, a health chief has revealed. John Dell, operations director at the Blackburn NHS Trust, also said the catering departments were "relatively pest-free environments". His comments
LITTER and dog fouling topped the list of "green" grumbles in a public survey across Hyndburn. More than a quarter of people who took part said refuse and dog mess are the environmental issues demanding most action. Almost a fifth put protecting parks
BURNLEY family doctors are being asked how they see the future of their job in the National Health Service. Burnley MP Peter Pike has written to all general practitioners in his constituency to ask for their views. He will then pass them on to a Labour
KING PLEASURE AND THE BISCUIT BOYS, THE WINCHESTERS IT may have been a superb collection of upbeat live sounds - but it definitely didn't seem like the blues. However, The Winchesters and Fat KP's band of boys certainly set the scene for an excellent
SOON we will all have received a Council Tax demand and the residents of Ribble Valley will reap the rewards for the seeds sown in May, 1995, when they elected a hung council of 19 Conservatives, 19 Liberal Democrats and one Labour councillor. On the
THE Darwen Women's Royal Voluntary Service is in urgent need of more volunteers to deliver Meals on Wheels. If you can spare two to three hours one morning a fortnight to help we would be very grateful. Please telephone Darwen 702249 or Blackburn 580228
THE Lancashire and Cumbria DIstrict Society of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants will hold its annual dinner at the Barton Grange Hotel on May 10. Tickets from Martin Clarke on 01253 21178. Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000
DEREK Ford and Yunis Patel took the stepping stone back to work. The two Blackburn men are the latest to find jobs after taking part in ELTEC's Target Training scheme. Derek, 28, suffered from health problems which dented his confidence. He enrolled with
THE first Tornado to be upgraded in a £125 million contract has arrived in Lancashire. The GR1 version of the fighter plan is being fitted with the latest equipment to take it into the next century. The GR4 Mid Life Update will have major changes to displays
A WAR on fake clothing has been launched as it was revealed a staggering £4 MILLION worth of counterfeit goods are made in the county each year. Blackburn is one of the worst areas in Lancashire for the production of designer duds with an estimated £1.5
A COMMONS bill allowing councils to compete in the private sector is to be introduced by an East Lancashire Labour MP. Pendle's Gordon Prentice wants local authorities to be allowed to trade in the open market. He believes that while private firms have
BLACKBURN'S increase in Council Tax does not tie in with the extravagance evident at Copy Nook, bordering on Audley Lane, where the council has had landscaped a previously grassed area. Trees and plants have been arranged, with blue tubular fencing around
SOCCER star Alan Shearer is unique ... but not on Accrington market. Stallholder Roger Allison managed to get his hands on half a dozen cardboard replicas of the Rovers and England star to raffle for charity, and now he has just three left. Roger, who
A TAXI firm came a double cropper today on the icy roads. A car from K Cabs at Accrington went out of control on Accrington Road, Blackburn, and ploughed into three cars on the forecourt of Bleasdale's Boundary Garage. A second taxi from the company was
TRADERS in Lancashire were warned to be on the alert for suspicious packages, after a firebomb blitz paralysed Manchester. Police sealed off part of the Arndale Centre when seven incendiary devices went off in shops in and around the massive shopping
TWO old friends will share a handshake before and after tomorrow's Turf Moor clash - whatever the outcome - and let their teams do the talking for them in between. Although, to be fair to both Burnley boss Adrian Heath and his Bradford City counterpart
I NOTICE that a stone boulder on Barbara Castle Way, Blackburn, has been awarded a plaque by the local civic society. What award may we expect for the re-designing of Ainsworth Street? May I suggest a cracked paving flag - with the names of planning officials
ONE of East Lancashire's biggest employers told planners a proposed scrapyard could threaten its position in the town. The scrapyard was proposed for land on Heasandford Industrial Estate, off Widow Hill Road, Burnley, and was refused after a Lucas boss
RAY Harford sounded a warning to his Blackburn Rovers players on the eve of a big Easter weekend - there's more at stake than just a UEFA Cup place next season on the six-game run-in to the end of the Premiership season. Rovers visit relegation-haunted
TWO British ambulances will be delivered to the Red Cross in Bosnia thanks to the generosity of people from East Lancashire. Rodney Roberts and his partner, Hazel Maxfield, of West Marton, Earby, and Tony and Dorothy Hindley, of Accrington, will travel
ADRIAN Heath expects - and will be looking for Burnley to deliver the goods in tomorrow's Turf Moor derby against Bradford City. And he believes the fans could be in for a Turf Moor treat, in contrast to Tuesday night's dull draw with Bournemouth. "The
